We are seeking a Silicon Technologies Strategic Partnerships & Sourcing Manager to lead Silicon Technologies Strategic Partnerships and Sourcing across advanced silicon nodes and enabling technologies (e.g., foundry ecosystem, packaging, IP, and critical supply-chain partnerships). This role owns the end-to-end strategy for supplier engagement and commercial outcomes, translating long-range compute and product needs into sourcing, contracting, and partnership roadmaps that ensure capacity, cost, technology access, resiliency, and speed.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Leadership:
- Define and execute the multi-year partnership strategy for silicon technology suppliers (foundries, OSATs/packaging, IP/EDA ecosystems as applicable, materials/critical upstream partners).
- Serve as a single-threaded leader for executive engagements, QBRs, JTAs/JDAs, and joint roadmaps with key partners.
- Build and manage technology collaboration frameworks (roadmap alignment, co-development constructs, governance, escalation paths)
- Strategic Sourcing & Commercial Ownership:
- Own sourcing strategy for assigned silicon technology domains: supplier selection, negotiation strategy, capacity/reservation approach, and contracting.
- Lead complex negotiations covering pricing models, capacity commitments, NRE/engineering funding, roadmap commitments, risk-sharing, and terms/SLAs.
- Develop and maintain should-cost / cost driver models and scenario-based business cases to support decisions
- Cross-Functional Program Leadership:
- Drive alignment across engineering, product, finance, legal, ops, quality/reliability, and supply chain to convert technical requirements into executable sourcing plans.
- Lead cross-functional governance (operating cadence, executive readouts, issue resolution) for strategic supplier initiatives.
- Partner closely with internal silicon and platform teams to align on process nodes, packaging architectures, yield ramps, and lifecycle transitions
- Supply Assurance, Risk, and Resilience:
- Build a comprehensive risk posture: capacity, geopolitical, dual-source, qualification strategy, materials constraints, and business continuity.
- Define mitigation plans (second source strategy, buffer/capacity options, contract protections, multi-tier visibility)
- Market Intelligence & Strategy:
- Maintain good understanding of semiconductor market dynamics: capacity cycles, node transitions, packaging trends, supplier financials, competitive landscape.
- Provide strategic insights and recommendations for make/buy, partner selection, and investment priorities
- Scope / Impact:
- Owns company-critical partnerships with meaningful financial and execution impact (e.g., multi-year, high-$ spend or high strategic leverage).
- Sets direction for a major sourcing domain; decisions have org-wide implications.
Influences leadership across multiple orgs; regularly operates at VP/executive supplier interface level.
- Recognized internally as a thought leader in silicon supply strategy and commercial structuring
Minimum Qualifications
- 12+ years experience in semiconductor strategic sourcing, supplier management, foundry/OSAT engagement, or silicon ecosystem partnerships (or equivalent)
- Proven track record leading high-stakes negotiations and executing multi-year sourcing/partnership agreements
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams without authority and deliver results through ambiguity
- Commercial/analytical skills: contracting, pricing structures, cost modeling, scenario analysis
- Executive communication skills (internal and external), including crisp narrative content and data-backed decision framing Experience with one or more: advanced process nodes, chipsets, chiplet/advanced packaging, substrate constraints, yield/capacity ramp planning
- Experience structuring JDA/JTA/co-development agreements and technology roadmap commitments
- Understanding of supply chain risk management in semiconductors (multi-tier, geopolitical, allocation environments)
- Prior experience operating in a hyperscale / large platform environment with complex stakeholder sets
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies